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Alfred Pierse Murphy's most memorable experience was when six planes from his squadron [Annotator's Note: 322nd...

Norman William Waldman was born in December 1924 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He served as a machine gunner in the...

Dominick Sgobbo was born in October 1924 in East Harlem, New York City, New York. The fifth of eight children of...

Everything was rationed during the war. George Grugett's dad told him to go to the ration board and get gas stamps. He...

Glen Jostad learned while being a prisoner of the Germans that everything is valuable. He managed to create a trap for...

John Singlaub had a problem getting into the POW [Annotator's Note: prisoner of war] camp on Hainan Island. The...

After arriving in Liverpool, Lucien Laborde was sent to Swindon where he was assigned to the 29th Infantry Division. At...

[Annotator's Note: Robert Rupp was stationed at Fort Riley, Kansas when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7...

Heywood Mason [Annotator's Note: a Private 1st Class in the US Army 88th Infantry Division] recovered from a case of...

Stanley Jack Birnbaum fell into his landing craft before landing at one of the American beaches at Normandy about five...

As the war progressed, the air support was hit and miss for Jack Buckner and the other bomber crews [Annotator's Note:...

Nicholas J. Zuras headed back out to sea [Annotator's Note: after firing all of the rockets on his rocket boat at Omaha...

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